Third, you willl need to register and setup Trading paints. This is the 3rd party software that allows the upload of the livery. Without it, your livery would not be seen and you will not see other driver's liveries.

Once you have these 3 things, you can start creating your livery. Honestly, there is not much more I can explain that is not already described in these 2 posts from the iRacing forums:

One of the first things I usually do is paint different sections of the car with different colours. I then load up the car and see how they all fit together. This way you can place your logos/colours where you want.

If you're using the .PSD files i've provided, create your livery within the 'Your livery' folder.

Try using one of the iracing templates in the 'Car patterns' folder. Swap out the colours and these usually are great base start for a livery.

Go crazy and be inventive!

Feel free to ask any questions. Let me know if you want me to expand on anything here.
Cheers.

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Adding trading paints definitely adds to the enjoyment I have of iRacing, as it enables you to see and display more detailed and idiosyncratic liveries.

Our team has had fun translating our real life paint scheme to the virtual Miata; although it's a different vintage of car the resemblance is still close enough to enjoy practicing for future Champcar events:

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Unfortunately you can't paint the banner on the 2015 Mazda. But I created a PSD with some Champcar logos for you to use! You can find it here: 2015 Mazda

If you have any questions feel free to shoot me a message, I do a lot of racing paints.

@AFawcett Thanks, yea without the banner not a whole lot of branding opportunities. I just finished my first paint, pretty happy with it. I wanted something that matched my company's branded NASCAR. Not sure what the orange stripe on the rear bumper means. I assume its a placeholder for something.

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@AFawcett Thanks, yea without the banner not a whole lot of branding opportunities. I just finished my first paint, pretty happy with it. I wanted something that matched my company's branded NASCAR. Not sure what the orange stripe on the rear bumper means. I assume its a placeholder for something.

That's pretty sweet. Great job!!!

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@AFawcett Thanks, yea without ﻿the banner not a whole lot of branding opportunities. I just finished my first paint, pretty happy with it. I wanted something that matched my company's branded NASCAR. Not sure what the orange stripe on the rear bumper means. I assume its a placeholder for something.

Looks great! The orange stripe on the bumper indicates the drivers license. Red is rookie, Orange is D class, Yellow is C class, Green is B Class, Blue is A Class.